Doctor In Sex Case Faces Bond Hearing

March 16, 1995|By Joseph Sjostrom.

Schaumburg — Ala Jabar Albazzaz, a Bloomingdale internist who has been charged with 47 counts of sex crimes involving 26 female patients, is to appear in court Thursday for a hearing on a motion to increase his bond.

Albazzaz, who pleaded innocent Tuesday to all the charges, has been free on $100,000 bond.

Assistant Cook County State's Atty. Mark Cavins has petitioned for an increase in bond because more charges were added after the first bond was set in January.

Albazzaz entered his plea Tuesday before Circuit Judge Robert Kowalski in the Rolling Meadows branch of Cook County court.

Albazzaz was charged in January with molesting four women patients and was freed after posting the required 10 percent of his $100,000 bond. But on Feb. 9 a Cook County grand jury returned indictments charging him with molesting a total of 26 women during pelvic examinations and also with fondling 21 of those women while examining their breasts.

The indictment charges him with 26 counts of criminal sexual assault and 21 counts of criminal sexual abuse.